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adjective

ignoble

completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose

In a sentence

Six example sentences with ignoble, each labelled with its topic.

  • Blackmailing a witness is an ignoble tactic, and the bar association suspended the attorney who tried it.

    Law

  • The villain's ignoble scheme involves stealing credit for a rescue he watched from a safe balcony.

    Movies

  • Leaking a rival's medical records was an ignoble move that cost the campaign its most loyal volunteers.

    Politics

  • Faking an injury to stop the clock was an ignoble trick, and even his own fans booed when the replay showed it.

    Basketball

  • Firing the whistleblower a week before her pension vested was ignoble, and the story cost the firm two major clients.

    Business

  • The novel's ignoble narrator spends three hundred pages blaming his brother for choices he made himself.

    Literature

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